Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a wood or metal receptacle placed on a desk to hold documents which have been processed, prior to transfer to a different person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wood or metal receptacle placed on your desk to hold your outgoing material
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Examples
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She was giving up her seats and her position, as stated on the letters now lying in her printer's out-tray.
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She was giving up her seats and her position, as stated on the letters now lying in her printer's out-tray.
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She was giving up her seats and her position, as stated on the letters now lying in her printer's out-tray.
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She was giving up her seats and her position, as stated on the letters now lying in her printer's out-tray.
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He signed it unread and hurled it into his out-tray.
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He flicked over the last page of the report and tossed it into his out-tray, stubbed out the cigarette and folded his hands across his middle, preparing to listen, as he usually did, with his attention fully engaged.
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He flicked over the last page of the report and tossed it into his out-tray, stubbed out the cigarette and folded his hands across his middle, preparing to listen, as he usually did, with his attention fully engaged.
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He flicked over the last page of the report and tossed it into his out-tray, stubbed out the cigarette and folded his hands across his middle, preparing to listen, as he usually did, with his attention fully engaged.
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An hour earlier the last file, containing his final minutes, had been collected by the uniformed messenger as quietly and unceremoniously as if this final emptying of his out-tray had been no different from any other.
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"If you are sitting in the Department of Finance - and I know this because I was there myself - if you sit there and do your grind and move files from the in-tray to the out-tray, you don't really learn a lot and you don't bring very much to the party."
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